The great single picture is emotionally satisfying, whereas getting a good journalistic story is more about being a professional. ”

Biography

Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence.

Henri Cartier-Bresson invited Ian Berry to join Magnum in 1962, when he was based in Paris. He moved to London in 1964 to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine. Since then assignments have taken him around the world: he has documented Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia; conflicts in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam and the Congo; famine in Ethiopia; apartheid in South Africa. The major body of work produced in South Africa is represented in two of his books: Black and Whites: L'Afrique du Sud (with a foreword by the then French president François Mitterrand), and Living Apart (1996). During the last year, projects have included child slavery in Ghana and the Spanish fishing industry.

Important editorial assignments have included work for National Geographic, Fortune, Stern, Geo, national Sunday magazines, Esquire, Paris-Match and Life. Ian Berry has also reported on the political and social transformations in China and the former USSR.

Ian Berry works out of London.

Awards

2005 National photography magazine award for lifetime achievement in photography1996 Made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society1990 Made Honorary Fellow, University of Lancashire 1981 1981 Pix of Year, magazine news, Award from Missouri School of Journalism and National Press Photographers of America 1977 Nikon Photographer of Year Award (first ever)1974 Awarded British Arts Council's first major photographic bursary (led to his book, The English)1969 Art Director's Club of New York Award1960 British Press Pictures, Feature Photographer of Year Award1959 British Press Pictures, Feature Photographer of Year Award1959 Nikon World Photo Contest Awards - 1st and 3rd

2008 Sold into Slavery2008 Mar (The Sea) 2006 Ian Berry, I Grandi Fotografi1996 Living Apart (Phaidon) text by Archbishop Desmond Tutu1992 Book on fishing port of Vigo 1991 Spanish book for Hologramme, Paris 1990 In Our Time: The World As Seen by MAGNUM Photographers 1989 Les Grands Travaux (book of modern French architecture)1988 L’Afrique du Sud with text by Francois Mitterrand 1981 World Photography: 25 Great Photographers (by Bryn Campbell) 1978 The English (Penguin and Allen Lane) 1960 Book on black stage musical, King Kong

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